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Overview"Gregory Conniff's large-scale black and white pastoral images evoke the sensuality of nineteenth-century photographic materials. In his affectionate and intelligent work, there is a visible connection to the history of landscape art, reaching back as far as Claude Lorrain and seventeenth-century Dutch drawing. Conniff is also a leading practitioner of a new pastoralism that is casting a contemporary eye on the current state of America's open land. Postmodern in the best sense, Conniff's pictures address the timeless human need to see beauty in the world that shapes our lives. A resident of Wisconsin for more than thirty years, Conniff has focused much of his artistic energy on the rural Midwest, exploring the interdependent relationship between land and people. For the past fifteen years, Conniff has also been making pictures of rural Mississippi, again focusing on elements of the landscape that resonate with a universal sense of aesthetic familiarity. As he explains, """"I am interested in work that defines and protects the vanishing, commonplace beauties that let us know we're home." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory ConniffPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 22.70cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 28.00cm Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9780932900999ISBN 10: 0932900992 Pages: 64 Publication Date: 31 January 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGregory Conniff is an artist whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, among others. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |